I love my orchids; when they flower they look truly out of this world! I have four orchids that flower at different times and it brightens up my house throughout the year.
Orchids are perennial plants, which means that they last for more than 2 years. They belong to the largest group of plants, Orchidaceae.
At the later end of the 19th Century, orchid breeding and hybridization were introduced by scientists Charles Darwin, Lewis Knudson and Noel Barnard. In this era, orchid growing was a luxurious hobby for well-heeled Europeans.
Due to such great progress in orchid growing, orchids can now be cultivated just about everywhere, their availability no longer limited to the rich.
There are now about 25,000 orchid species that can be found in wild forests alone. More or less of the same numbers are estimated elsewhere around the world.
Thanks to the genius minds of those scientists of the past century, the discovery of hybrid breeding caused the widespread growth of orchids worldwide.
All photos taken by me, orchid info from: https://www.epicgardening.com/types-of-orchids/
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Orchids are really wonderful flowors!
They are lovely @enja18, but they almost look alien and unreal! :-)
the color of the orchid flower is very beautiful:)
on the flowers, with the brush there are patterns😊
I do love purple flowers @sudefteri, it does look as though the design has been applied with a paint brush though! :-)
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